Jobless claims fall: Initial claims for state unemployment...

October 05, 1990

Jobless claims fall: Initial claims for state unemployment insurance fell 13,000 nationwide in the week ended Sept. 22, to 390,000 from 403,000 the week before, the Labor Department said. In the week ended Sept. 15, 2.55 million people were receiving state unemployment benefits, down 46,000 from the preceding week. The number of people receiving unemployment benefits as a percentage of those covered by unemployment insurance fell to 2.4 percent in the week ended Sept. 15 from 2.5 percent the week before.